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  1. annual sales of Jet engines on Jet Strikes Drone Near Heathrow Airport (marketwatch.com) · · Score: 1

    Counting only new planes built each year, one gets to a number in the thousands, and each of those has several engines. So annual sales of engines must be in the thousands. E.g. in 2015, Airbus delivered about 650 planes, Boeing 800 planes, other manufacturers delivered about 800 jets (not counting turboprops and piston-engined planes). See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... http://www.gama.aero/media-cen...

  2. Re:Wow on Scribd Switches To HTML5 · · Score: 1

    You must be mistaken: I turned JavaScript off and I could still browse StackOverflow without any trouble. Just could not vote a question or answer up or down.

  3. Re:We know. We don't care. on Charter Launches 60 Mbps Service · · Score: 1

    You made the parent's point: You live in 100 sq ft (37 m^2).

  4. Specific prior art on Amazon Patents Including a String at End of a URL · · Score: 1

    Specific prior art to at least some of these claims would include http://bugs.debian.org/your_search_term . It does not do multiple keywords, only single ones.

  5. Re:Pardon my ignorince but ... on Laptops, Headless Servers and KVMs? · · Score: 1

    Grand-parent's point was probably that "sudo bash" (or "sudo -H -s") works exactly as well, and uses only one setuid root program.

  6. none@nope.tld on Where Do Dummy Email Addresses Go? · · Score: 1

    I often use none@nope.tld, where tld is some top-level domain.

  7. Re:Limit number of connexions, NOT which FTP clien on FTP: Better Than HTTP, Or Obsolete? · · Score: 1
    Why and how is that?

    If you have a limit of 2 connections per IP, then if on a network of 100 machines behind a NAT gateway, three persons want to download something from that FTP server, at the very least one (if not two) of them is screwed: He has to wait fot the *other* people to having finished their download before he can start his.

    I see connexion-per-IP limits fairly often

    "Because other people get it wrong" is no reason to get it wrong, too.

  8. Re:Limit number of connexions, NOT which FTP clien on FTP: Better Than HTTP, Or Obsolete? · · Score: 1
    Instead of banning download managers that can do segmented downloading, why not just limit the number of connexions from a given IP?

    Because it hurts people behind NAT

  9. In Europe, if it is for interoperability on When is it Legal to Reverse Engineer Software? · · Score: 2, Informative

    In Europe, it is, among others, legal as soon as it is for debugging or interoperability purposes, and the only means to do so. Here's the law that says it.

  10. Re:only us residents on NeuStar to Manage .US Registry · · Score: 1
    with the exception of the few remaining communist countries I suspect you can get a registration in just about any country's tld whether or not you live there.

    One notable exception: France. In France, to get a second-level, you must be french company and take your name, or have a registered trademark, and take that trademark.

    There is a second-level reserved for persons, and then you can get as third-level: your_real_name-[you_choose_it_but_non_empty]

  11. Anything for lawful purpose permitted on The EU's Answer To The DMCA · · Score: 2, Informative
    1. Temporary acts of reproduction referred to in Article 2, which are transient or incidental [and] an integral and essential part of a technological process and whose sole purpose is to enable:
    • (a) a transmission in a network between third parties by an intermediary, or
    • (b) a lawful use of a work or other subject-matter to be made, and which have no independent economic significance, shall be exempted from the reproduction right provided for in Article 2.

    So using Elcosoft's software for lawfull uses (transferring from one PC you own to another you own, from you PC to you PDA, ...) can not be forbidden by the copyright holder. Seem much more reasonable to me than DMCA.

    Additionally, article 5, item 1.c, specifically addresses the teacher case, 3a the scientific research case (and even putting copyrighted material in a scientific article), 3b the blind people case, ...

    Article 6, item 4 says that anti-copy protection can not prevent authorized copies (such those mentioned before)

    Read it, it is interesting, and not that long (skip the 62 "whereas"es, they are not)

  12. English announcement of SuSE 7.3 on New Financing And Fewer Staff @ SuSE · · Score: 3, Informative

    That announcement won't need babelfishing: It's the english version ;-)

  13. Difference very simple: on How Would Crypto Back Doors Work? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    "Honest citizens don't send random data around". So if it looks random, has no compression headers, it is encrypted. Obviously, this reasoning is utterly flawed, but I'm sure at least some law enforcer will make it.

  14. Re:I've run into this on Moglen On Enforcing The GPL · · Score: 1

    redistribution within an organization. This is a real grey area -- is the organization in control of the code or the individuals who have access to it?
    Well... Given the talk about the “ASP loophole”, the main problem being that then users are using the app without any chance to see the code (because no redistribution occurs), I'd think that the spirit of the license says that the users should have the code, and thus redistribution within an organisation make the individuals in control of the code. Now, I make no statement about the letter of the license...
  15. Re:GPL and charging for software on IBM Running Linux On Secure Hardware · · Score: 1

    There is nothing in the GPL that says I have to give away source to anyone that asks...
    This again, is not exactly true. If you distributed the binary without the source code, then you must give the source code to anyone that already has the binary.

    But if you give the source code with every binary you give out, then you aren't forced to give anything to anyone

    But for the rest, you made the point.

  16. Re:GPL and charging for software on IBM Running Linux On Secure Hardware · · Score: 1

    You can ask for a fee, but you must also make it freely available to anyone that asks.
    Sorry to insist, but that's plainly false. You can very well refuse to give it to anyone that doesn't pay the fee you've decided. The only limitation is that if you don't ship the source code with the binary, the fee you charge for later delivery of the source code must not exceed the cost of the media. (Section 3.b)

    for every person that pays you for your software, there can be 10 or 100 or 1000 that won't send you a dime
    Well, that is true, but only because the persons you gave (or sold) the program to may freely redistribute it, either at no cost or for a freely chosen fee. If the person you gave (or sold) the program to had not this right, the program wouldn't be free software.
    That's even a FAQ: See http://www.fsf.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#DoesTheGP LAllowMoney and http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/selling.html

    Lovely, hey?
    Yes, that's lovely, and the thing I love in the GPL: the program stays free (as in free speech)
  17. GPL and charging for software on IBM Running Linux On Secure Hardware · · Score: 1
    At least with the BSD style licence you have the option of giving it away or charging for it. GPL/GNU doesn't offer that choice.
    The GPL permits to charge a fee for a copy of the program, i.e. if you want me to give you a copy of a GPL'd program, I can ask you (any!) fee for it.
  18. X started as free? on Reverse Engineering .NET - Good, Bad or Inevitable? · · Score: 1

    Didn't X begin under an open-source (or even free?) license, becoming less and less open every release?

  19. Re:Global users directory on Jabber As The Coming IM Standard? · · Score: 2

    There is a “Jabber User Directory” hosted on jabber.org. If the admin of your server has activated it in its config, you can register on it. (Your server can also have a local users directory, or both)

    So, if the server admins are responsible, we'll get searching capabilities for users that want to be found

    IMHO, one does not need such facilities. There is none for e-mail, and we are happy so, aren't we? If there where any such facility, it would make spammer's life SO much easier! How do you send your friends an e-mail? Yes, you ask them not only for their “username”, but also for their e-mail domain. Shocking, isn't it?

    And for the “too much confusing choices”, sensible defaults should do the trick for those who are confused. I appreciate choosing the way I receive messages if I wish so. There is no reason to impose that the sender and the recipient see them in the same way if they have different tastes.